By He Reads Truth
After you finish reading today’s Scriptures, come back and read the essay here to dig deeper into the ways we see this specific promise at work in our day’s reading. Then join your fellow Bible readers in the comments to reflect on and discuss what you’re learning!
Trusting God’s promise of provision can be more difficult in practice than believing it on principle. Yet since the beginning, God has been our provider, giving us the air in our lungs and the food in our stomachs (Gn 1:29; 2:7). The first temptation showed us just how quickly we doubt God as our good provider. The lie that began at the fall has governed much of our behavior ever since.
During His time on earth, Jesus modeled what it looks like to depend on God for all we need, while actively seeking Him first and foremost. He showed us how the worries and cares of this world can be replaced by contentment and abundance, trusting God knows our needs best. He spoke truth to break the devil’s ancient yet persistent lie, declaring that whatever we may build for ourselves on earth will crumble in the end; only that which is eternal—what is stored up in heaven—will last (Mt 6:19–20). Therefore, even as we await the provision of eternity with Christ, we trust that in His presence we lack nothing.
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